4-cyl HEI in GM Autos?

Garfield garfield at pilgrimhouse.com
Thu Nov 27 04:57:38 GMT 1997


On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:39:04 -0500, Clare Snyder <clsnyde at ibm.net>
wrote:

>Hey gar, there is another way round all this, but a bit of work. Get an
>8 cyl HEI dizzy and grind every second tip from the reluctor. Fill every
>second hole in the cap with epoxy - and just make sure you fill the
>right half. Machine the case to fit the (soob) application and install
>the proper drive gear. This way you can use an early Mech advance HEI
>system and not worry about the advance curve - just change weights and
>springs till you get it right!!

Yeah, I should have explained more my agenda here. I'm not looking for
this kind of module to swap with something else or even use in an HEI
dizzy. I'm looking for a module that can give me a very basic, dirt
simple advance ramp INSTEAD of mechanical advance.

Just pretend I'm making my own dizzy with NO centrifugal nor vacuum adv.
mechanisms, just a mag pickup and a spinning rotor and a cap (sorta like
an HEI dizzy, but without the coil upstairs), and yet I DON'T wanna HAVE
to need an ECM to give me a primitive electrical equivalent of
centrifugal advance. Seewhadamean? That's what I've got when I
disconnect the ECM from my '83 V6 GM HEI dizzy, presently.

But, I can't use the 6 cyl version module that I have on my GM car, on a
4cyl engine, cause the advance wouldn't likely be right.

So that's my quest, a module for a 4 cyl car that has a rudimentary
advance ramp built-in. Anyone?

Garfield



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